And the Republican presidential pack shrank to five as Jeb Bush said he is suspending his campaign after a poor showing in SC.
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Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, two establishment candidates who both hope the outcome will allow them to lock up the more traditional Republican voters they have been courting.
The former Florida governor – son of one president and brother of another – started his campaign as the odds-on favourite to win the Republican presidential nomination, backed by a prodigious political brain trust and millions of dollars in donations from private and corporate supporters.
The New York billionaire real-estate developer and reality-TV star is a step closer to, as he puts it, “running the table”. Bush never compromised his campaign by becoming some kind of freak show barker for the sake of keeping up with the circus the GOP race has become.
A large majority of black caucus-goers supported Clinton, while whites and Hispanics were more evenly divided. Clinton is heavily favored to defeat Sanders next Saturday when South Carolina Democrats vote.
“We’ve won an early primary state”, Miller said at the time. But two-thirds of caucus-going women were 45 and over, and 7 in 10 of them supported Clinton.
– “If Ronald Reagan can smash the American dream from right field, then Bernie can build it back up from left field”.
“I think he will continue to be a voice of reason and ideas in this race, but not as a candidate anymore”.
Jeb Bush may have the most on the line tonight, though. Onetime protege Marco Rubio passed him in the polls, and Bush moved farther and farther to the side of the stage in the candidates’ presidential debates.
Ted Cruz’s disappointing finish in the SC primary could be a decisive moment in his campaign and raises doubts about his strategy of winning big in the South.
– “As much as I’d like to see a Christian as president, I’m not sure anyone can stay a Christian in that office”.
According to Silver, South Carolina “looks about halfway in between” New Hampshire’s and Iowa’s outcomes for Trump, one of which was a heavy 20-point victory while the other was a loss for the candidate. – Allison Reilly, 18, on what it was like to pay attention to her first campaign as a voting-age adult. “And that message will be most pronounced by those candidates’ donors”.
Rubio was looking for a strong performance on Saturday to validate the comeback story he has been building after slumping to fifth place in New Hampshire.
But Trump’s dominance nationally, and his decisive win in SC, bode ill for Cruz’s Southern push.
Just over half of South Carolina GOP primary voters said immigrants who are living in the country illegally should be offered a chance to apply for legal status, and those voters tended to prefer Rubio. The problem is that Rubio had that hiccup in N.H. that prevented him… He’s yet to do better than a strong third in Iowa.
As for Clinton, Saturday’s results were a potential campaign-saver. Mogul Donald Trump came in first, followed by Texas Sen. He will focus next on MI, which votes March 8, along with Georgia and the other March 1 SEC primary states.
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Nevada’s caucuses on Tuesday will help tell the tale leading up to the SEC primary. But what about union members? Barack Obama in 2008, while making the argument for an experienced, tested leader. But, having lost a golden opportunity to win in South Carolina, Cruz must figure out how to succeed in states where socially conservative issues are less important.
